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Scientists uncover Africa s oldest human burial, a child s 78,000-year-old remains Thursday May 06 2021 The Panga Ya Saidi site in Mombasa, Kenya, where the remains of a three-year-old child named by the scientists Mtoto and buried inside a deliberately dug pit were discovered by archaeologists. PHOTO | AFP Advertisement A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday. The sunken pit, in a cave complex along the coast of Kenya, was bereft of ornaments, offerings or ochre-coloured clay carvings found in the region s more recent Stone Age graves, they detailed in the journal Nature. 

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